One field goal decided the 1960 Iron Bowl, and it was kicked in the second quarter. Nothing else was scored by either side.
The only points
Tommy Brooker’s 22-yard field goal gave Alabama a 3-0 lead before half-time. Neither team scored in the third quarter or the fourth. It is the lowest-scoring Iron Bowl since the series resumed in 1948, and one of only a handful of games in the rivalry decided by a single score of any kind.
The rankings were the wrong way round
Auburn came into the game ranked #8 in the Associated Press poll. Alabama were #17. Auburn were 8-1 and had lost once all season; Alabama were 7-1-1 and had drawn once. On form, on ranking and on record, Auburn were the better team on the day they lost.
Afterwards
Alabama finished 8-1-2 and drew 3-3 with Texas in the Bluebonnet Bowl. Auburn finished 8-2 and 13th in the final Associated Press poll, with no bowl game.
This was the second consecutive Iron Bowl in which Auburn failed to score, and the second consecutive year Bryant’s Alabama had won it. The pattern that would define the 1960s in this fixture was now visible: low-scoring, defensive, and going one way.